I agree with the general sentiment, but gotta lol a bit at ācontinued disrespect of Rita Morenoā. She has an entire dedicated wikipedia page just for all the awards she has won.
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Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer.
With a career spanning nearly 80 years in the entertainment industry, Moreno is one of a few individuals to have won the four major annual American entertainment awards: an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony.
She is also one of the few performers who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting", with individual competitive Academy, Emmy, and Tony awards for acting; she, Helen Hayes, and Viola Davis are the only three who have achiev...
No. No one in it is ālikeableā. Except the youngest rich girl Izzy. Thatās partly whatās so refreshing about it. You do start to understand more where she is coming from and why she is how she is, but theyāre all flawed people throughout. If anything learning that makes her less likeable because youāre like this is your trauma? But from her characters perspective it is a big deal. She thinks sheās justified and a good person doing their best. And sheās kind of right in a way considering where she came from. Like she tries to help her friends, she āhelpsā a poor African American woman out of the blue (in 1997) and she is a āgood motherā as she understands the term. Itās just that her perspective is distorted by her upbringing, social standing etc.
I havenāt kept up with this thread, but I recently started watching Perry Mason on HBO, and I love it. I didnāt watch it too much growing up, so I didnāt really have a frame of reference for it. Iām curious what UPās thoughts on it are?
Netflix has ordered a six-episode prequel limited series for The Witcher , called The Witcher: Blood Origin , and set 1,200 years before the events of the original series.
Logline: āSet in an Elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time ā the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal āconjunction of the spheres,ā when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.ā
The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will serve as executive producer, with The Witcher writer Declan de Barra as executive producer and showrunner, and TheWitcher author Andrzej Sapkowski as a consultant.
Iām staggering through Perry Mason for lack of better things to do. No idea why its even called that as its just standard 1930s costume porn detective story with basically zero courtroom drama. Maslany seems wasted. IDK like 3 more to go right and 2021 is going to be a wasteland of TV.
Glad to have another watcher itt. Namath and I are both big fans. I didnāt have much experience with the original either, but Iām a big fan of noir and I think there are some great performances.
Keeed gave it a go, but seems to have tapped out early b/c he expected something a little more like the original, and the new series is definitely a bit different in tone and setting from the original.
Iād be too afraid to rewatch Interview with a Vampire. Much younger me really enjoyed the books and was pleasantly surprised by the movie too. But Iām not sure those fond memories would survive a revisit by surly, older me.
A fun way to revisit might instead be to listen to the podcast The Worst Bestsellers episode on the book. Itās a great podcast on books in general.
The movie though is so different than the book. What did you think? I always loved Ann Riceās ideas but couldnāt stand her storytelling style. Five pages describing the way the ink sits on a page? Lol? But she gave us a genre mashup the likes of which weād not seen before. For that, she deserves a place in literary history.
For me, the movie far more elegantly explores what it means to be queer. Kirsten Dunst is amazing. And Antonio Banderas as Armand. That scene at the French theater is still wtf. Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires so they can kill people on stage as part of their performance.
The gals at Worst Bestsellers brought up this scene and how in the book, Lestat is alive and has a hand in Armandās coven seeking revenge against Louis and Claudia. I really enjoyed that aspect of the book sequel and how it gave a new perspective on scenes we thought we knew. Chilling to think of Louis forever entombed in a concrete wall while his daughter and their new vampire mate burned alive in the sunrise. That carried me all the way back to Anneās later sequel Merrick, where Louis is given a chance to speak to Claudiaās ghost.
And then there is that godawful Queen of the Damned movie. My lord. How bad can an adaptation be? Worse than you think.
Yeah, just watched this weekās episode on Wednesday. Iām not a big tv buff or critic, but I love it so far. Every significant female character is awesome, I like how they portray the issues surround the black cop getting pressured to cover up the crime. And I loved how they handled his testimony and the how Mason struggled with how to play it.
Itās been so long that I really donāt remember any specifics. I saw the movie over 25 years ago, and itās been almost 30 since I read the books. All that remains are vauge plot outlines and general impressions.
